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a) Ad Hoc Committee regarding Public Improvements - The Ad Hoc Committee along with City Staff members have been working on the proposed methods of financing and assessing public improvements. The City Staff members, mainly Building Official Clayton Berg and City Engineer Pete Raatikka, have put together a rough draft ordinance which will be going to the Ad Hoc Committee on November 15, 1982. It is hoped that at this meeting the draft ordinance, with a few modifications, can be approved and submitted to the Ramsey City Council for their meeting on November 23, 1982. b) Landfill - City Staff is currehtly working on an economic report which deals with the proposed landfill and existing landfill as to its economic affect on the City of Ramsey. It also covers public health. This report will be for the benefit of the Ramsey City Council in opposing Anoka County mainly and the Metropolitan Council in the adoption of the Site P landfill area in the City of Ramsey, The report's main thrust is to point out that the Site P landfill is the only landfill that falls in an urban com- mercial area. Consequently, if the County and Metropolitan Council pushed this thing through, then the City of Ramsey wants proper legislation whereby the City's tax base will not be lost as the State would pick this up in the form of State aid to the City. Further, that there would be proper legislation covering the public health aspect if sewer and water became a necessity to the residential areas and if the landfill polluted the area, the State of Minnesota would automatically assume the responsibility of covering these costs should any public health menace created by the' landfill occur in the residential areas. c) 1983-1987 Five Year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget - The City's next major project after the completion of the adoption of the ordinance regarding the financing and assess- ing of public improvement projects will be to prepare a Five Year CIP Budget with a fiscal analysis report. This document is quite critical to the City along with the aforementioned ordinance. The reasons for its importance are 1) The City hopes to be able to go to the Moody bond rating firm and show them that we have the proper tools in place to manage public improvements and the cost of said improvements. Currently, the City has a B-AA rating. We would like to get this changed to an A rating which would mean quite a savings to the City of Ramsey on the bond market; 2) It is important for developers who own land in Ramsey to know the methods that are available for them to develop the land, how Ramsey proposes, to handle public improvements, how they have them scheduled and the impact of these public improvements on taxes; 3) It is also very important to this Commission that they have copies of the CIP Budget showing how the City proposes to do certain things and the burden of cost that will be placed on the City when these proposed projects are done.